How well-behaved were you in high-(secondary) school?

[Redway]

As it says in the title (the poll might elucidate it more).

As far as “me, myself and I” goes I was pretty badly-behaved and lazy in Year 9 (I think a lot of people pissed around the year before starting their G.C.S.E.s, as a final swang-song of naughtiness and whatnot) and wasn’t exactly the most organised throughout my time in school generally (except for Year 10) but before and after that I was generally one of the better students in all senses. Probably too flakey with organisation (except when I wasn’t) to be a truly model student but for the most part I was just one of the good ones, really. If Year 9 didn’t count and I was a bit more consistent with handing things in on time and stuff I would’ve been closer to model.
And y’all?

[Crimson Dynamo]

Okay-ish but not brilliant. Just a normal/average student in that sense

[AnnieK]

I was an angel the first two years, then a nightmare.
I smoked, was cheeky, set the fire alarm off so school got evacuated (had to go to Fire Station to apologise and get bollocked), was regularly stoned, got arrested and was in cells when I should have been sitting a GCSE, regulalry skipped etc.

My poor parents :sad:

[MTVN]

Well compared to Annie I was a puritan :omgno:

I was quite troublesome years 9-11, nothing serious but I would act the clown a lot, mess around and be deliberately provocative on any serious issue. Sixth form really calmed me down because a lot of the dickheads left and the teachers treated you with more respect

[Redway]

I think when I got to Year 9 I just wanted to push boundaries and release a bit of steam before the academic going got more serious (key stage four). Even at my loudest there’s still a certain quiet reserve about me (normally anyway) and I’ve always been like that so I wasn’t out-and-out disruptive like that but I did form a certain clown-trio that year and made it a duty to find something to laugh about in every lesson but like I say all that funny nonsense was just one year. Before and after I was pretty good. I don’t regret Year 9 banter one bit because it was just a bit of early-teenaged fun.
English was always my natural strongest point but my teacher didn’t see the real good me on that front until Year 10 and we had a good teacher-student relationship so that was a nice interpersonal blossom.

[Crimson Dynamo]

In our schools

it is:

Primary 1 to Primary 7

Secondary - First year to Sixth years

[Redway]

Year 7 is a very weird year to be in at English schools. You’re in high school but you’re still not a teenager.

[Zizu]

In our schools

it is:

Primary 1 to Primary 7

Secondary - First year to Sixth years


That’s what it WAS down here in the Seventies


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[Crimson Dynamo]

I never got the belt :hee:

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/05/61/70/056170c7c04b3ab8f80867fad072a794--discipline-secretary.jpg

[Mystic Mock]

I definitely weren't the model student, but I never really gave Teachers grief either.

[user104658]

Errrmmmm I was in top classes/high-performing and well behaved in class, never once had a bad report, but not so well behaved out of sight of teachers :umm2: The best way to be, obviously.

[rusticgal]

Average student academically….but a well behaved student and well respected..


Senior Prefect…:flutter:

[bots]

i got suspended for a week for smoking in the cloak room :smug:

[Crimson Dynamo]

i got suspended for a week for smoking in the cloak room :smug:

:nono:

its perps like you who make my cloak stink

[bots]

i also remember ridiculing a maths teacher who was caught "dating" a student, looking back on it now, i am quite proud of that

[MTVN]

i also remember ridiculing a maths teacher who was caught "dating" a student, looking back on it now, i am quite proud of that

And he was still teaching? :umm2:

Different times

[Crimson Dynamo]

And he was still teaching? :umm2:

Different times

in the 70s that was the norm

[Zizu]

I never got the belt :hee:

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/05/61/70/056170c7c04b3ab8f80867fad072a794--discipline-secretary.jpg


We got the cane on the palm of non-writing hand at primary then the dreaded slipper across the backside at secondary school
… sixties/seventies .


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[Zizu]

i also remember ridiculing a maths teacher who was caught "dating" a student, looking back on it now, i am quite proud of that


We had a drop dead gorgeous English teacher who looked like Alexandra Bastedo from the Champions.. sadly she was caught sha**ing a scruffy looking Geog teacher in the humanities storeroom and they were both ‘moved’ on .. it was a well to do grammar school so I suppose they had no choice .. shame as her lessons were mesmerising


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[MTVN]

It was always the English teachers :flutter:

[Crimson Dynamo]

We had a drop dead gorgeous English teacher who looked like Alexandra Bastedo from the Champions.. sadly she was caught sha**ing a scruffy looking Geog teacher in the humanities storeroom and they were both ‘moved’ on .. it was a well to do grammar school so I suppose they had no choice .. shame as her lessons were mesmerising


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we had the Lochgelly Tawse made in Fife

it made 95% of children cry even with one of the best, never mind 6

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/PQsAAOSw-rlkII2s/s-l1600.jpg

I sell them now for hundreds of quid, when i can get them, to the BDSM community

[AnnieK]

We had a teacher in primary who used to give what we called the "shakeymakey" where she would grab your shoulders and shake you whilst shouting, she also used the slipper and used to give the naughty boy in our class a whack in a morning in case he thought about playing up. She had to retire when they stopped corporal punishment as she was a successful teacher through fear

[Zizu]

we had the Lochgelly Tawse made in Fife

it made 95% of children cry even with one of the best, never mind 6

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/PQsAAOSw-rlkII2s/s-l1600.jpg

I sell them now for hundreds of quid, when i can get them, to the BDSM community


That looks far worse than our XL slippers / plimsoles


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[LaLaLand]

Average. Very talkative though, as one glance at any old school report will tell you.

[Alf]

I rarely attended but when I did attend I was a little bastard. I got my education from Only fools and horses.

[smudgie]

Very mixed.
Apart from the last year I went to a private school, came back to Britain and the shock of disrespect for and from teachers sent me off course😂
The maths teacher shouted my surname across the classroom and I of course replied in the same manner, he wasn’t a happy chappy and I was banned from all of his lessons.
I bunked of a lot of the time, was taken to school by the police, last straw for my lovely headmistress and she politely told me I wasn’t expected back next term.

[Redway]

Average. Very talkative though, as one glance at any old school report will tell you.

My own was being very giggly (alongside one or two other lads) but like I said that was just a bit of fun in my last year of key stage 3. I went dramatically back to form in Year 10 and was more organised than I'd ever been. The only person who didn't notice the return to form was an ex French teacher who never let what happened in Year 9 go. But then she wasn't in the loop so it is what it is. I just know she kept tarring me with an old brush because of the one year I let her down. One year and she never forgot, even after it was no-longer relevant.

[Zizu]

I had a traumatic time at high school ..
I was very quiet and barely said a word ..

All my primary school friends went to the local high second modern school about 400 yards/metres away ..but I passed the grammar school exam so I ended up spending 5 years of hell there without really making any friends and it was about 5 miles away which seemed like another world .


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[Redway]

On the topic of quietude, I wish teachers weren’t so ambivalent towards it. The ideal student in this part of the world (whereas America has a more extraverted ideal) is someone who’s relatively quiet along with being docile (in a good way) and conscientious but teachers often yearn for some of these students to be a bit more active in class participation. I completely understand why they say that but while you’re being quietly conscientious, observing and paying attention it’s hard to be chit-chatting back to the teacher over every little thing any always raising your hand. But then I guess if you don’t do that at all people won’t know how smart you are and underestimate your capabilities up against the resident maths genius who everyone just assumes is better at English than you because they say a bit more in class. There was a girl like that in my head and to this day it really pisses me off that most people had no idea how smart she actually was. She was outspoken enough anywhere outside the classroom but within those particular four walks she literally never said a word. But at the end of the day what isn’t orally spoken is often very passionately expressed in writing and that’s what a lot of people don’t understand.